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Weekly News Wrap-up: Feb. 23 - Mar. 1, 2009

By Michael Stevens

Legal news around the Commonwealth this past week: Legislators Discuss Student Athlete Bill Inspired By Max Gilpin Three Added To Teen Athlete's Wrongful Death Suit Ky. school shooter asks judge to overturn sentence Fen-phen lawyer: Judge dawdling Mistrial in Louisville double homicide Sovereign-immunity motion stalls firefighters' pay case A King-size loan U.S. plans to sue Harrison, sheriff in harassment case Diet-drug case fees assailed -The son of a woman who died from the drug fen-phen testified today that he thought a crime had been committed when he saw how much attorneys in the case had charged in fees and expenses. Judge overturns death sentence in teen's slaying A federal judge has overturned the death sentence of a man who pleaded guilty to raping and slaying a western Kentucky honor student in 1997. DiGiuros try to collect civil suit; attorney to question Ragland's finances Lawyers for the family of slain University of Kentucky football player Trent DiGiuro want to question his killer about his finances. A deposition notice was filed for Shane Ragland on Friday in Fayette Circuit Court. The DiGiuro family is attempting to collect a $63.3 million civil verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit against Ragland, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2007 over DiGiuro's 1994 shooting death. Bills would toughen penalties for DUI FRANKFORT People caught driving drunk just once could be forced to install breath-alcohol monitoring devices in their cars, as Kentucky lawmakers consider toughening the state's DUI laws. Years Later, Questions & Suspicion Still Linger [from pageone blog] By jake on Flashback Why were the Kent Downey court records sealed? Kentucky forgot about it all after The Kentucky Post ran an article from the AP on it on January 10, 2001. Arguments heard in fen-phen case

Full post as published by Kentucky Law Blog on March 02, 2009 (boomark / email).